The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-03-13
TIE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Facts and Figures Gathered from super
intendent Edson's Annual Report.


Board of Education, which has inst come
from the presses of the SUNDAY MORNING
News, is an exhaustiee statement of all
that can be learned OF the condition aud
management of our public schools School
Superintendent A. W. Edison, has expend-
ed vast amount of labor in the collation.
and preparation of the data, and the work
is full of interest for those who are inter-
ested in the schools With his report is
also embodied some important statistical
tables prepared by Cle.k Bernie Wester-
welt. his table of the expenses of the
schools shows that next to the High School.
which cost Sl9, 088 Hast year, sScaool No
2 Is tho most expensive in the city. Its
maintenance cost ST., 824 last year School
No. 6 is not far behind at ST., 665 and
then follow No. 8, SIS 555, and No l,
$751; The three annex schools cost less
than $1,000 each per year. The cost per
pupil varies from $6.23 in School No. IL
to 50. S9in School No. 20. and $12 &c in the
High School. ,hool No Is has the
smallest average register-112 and No. 6
the largest, 1,460. But No. has the
largest total enrollment-2 119, and No. s
the largest average attendance, 1926. The
appropriations fer the schools made by
the Board of Education, reached 1866 900
in 1873 got down to S225, 900 in 1878 and
were below $500, 900 in the years 1879, 80
81 and 80. This years appropriation is
little short of $240, 600 The total value of
school property in the city is S628, 900 for
buildings and lots, S14,030 for books,
$23 700 for furniture total of $685.
100 The schools that cost $50, 900
and upwards are No. -, $50 900 /;
No. 6, on Central avenue. $55 800 the
High School, $50. $50; Ne. 8, on Sherman
avenue, s55.200. The furniture in School
No 2l.on Twelfth street near Erie, cost
So, 700, 81 200 more than that in any other
school in the city. There ara ten teachers
in the High School The total number of
teachers is 142 in the Grammar depart
menss, and 212 IN the Primaries. There
are 80 teachers each in Nos. 2 and 6.
School No. IL, on Bergen Square, is the
only one OF the schools that has mora
Grammar than Primary department teach
ers. OF the 23,060 pupils admitted, only
l, 246 attended school during all the school
year. The largest proportion of ad missions
was of children between s and 9 years Of
age-2 90S; only 1856 of the admitted were
over 10 years of age. None over Is ara re-
corded as having been admitted, and only
129 over II. Refused for want of room
were 701. The time lost by the alb
sence of teachers during the year
was 1890 school days, 395 days less
than the year before Talking about the
Primary schools, Superintendent Eison
says that forty classes have from 20 to
$50 pppils each, one class 2i0. Altogether
there dfe 2i2 primary classes with 226
teachers in charge of them. In % classes
only half day sessions are allowed. In all
Sth grade classes, and in some schools
even to the 4th grade (56 class rooms),
pupils are without desks and crowded
upon settees. In the Is grammar schools
SO classes are taught by 103 teachers.
Many pupils from the first classes prim-
airy ire kept back for lack of room in
the grammar department i'll schools Nos.
8, II, 10 and IA.
The school census, which is The basis
of the States allowance to the support of
the schools here, shows, the Superinten-
dent remarks, a decrease of 6, 499 from
the census of the year 1885 This, he
thinks, is partly owing to the fact that
the census was taken two months later last
year than the year before, when the
canal children had left the city,
During the year "a teachers resigned.
Among them was Miss Emma S. Land
rine, who alone resigned from the High
School-in September last. The list of
teachers shows that many of them do not
reside in the city. Those who have been
more than twenty years in the schools are
Mrs Kate S. Dnvrie, principal of the
Training school, appointed in May, 1864;
Principal Georsa IL. Linsley of School No.
l, sppoin.ed in February, 1913; Principal
Sarah j. Root of the Primary Department
of the same school. October, 1864; Agnes
Adrian of Schcel No. 9, November, 1859;
Mrs. E. J. Eyeland, Principal of the PR.
mary Department OF No. 2. February,
1S48; Mary E. Reed of the Grammar De-
partment of No. School, December, 1867;
Mrs, l.. FL. Stanley. principal of the Pti-
mary Department of No. 6 School, Octo-
Der, 1864; Charles A. Ho5t and Jennie M.
Lewis, principals respectively of the de-
psrtments in No. s, both appointed in
1866; Phoebe A. Brigham. principal of the
PriRery Department 10 No. IL, December
1858, and Esther Van Wrinkle of the Tuers
Avenue Annex, TO the school, September,
1854; principal Joslin. of No. u, January,
1857; principal Mary S. Beale or the Pri-
mary Department of the same school, De-
cember. 1865; Jennie Y. Eorsley, Of No,
IS School in Lafayette, Decenl Der, 1866:
Mrs. S. G. Marvin, head of that schools
Primary Department, March, 1867; princi-
pal Sarah L Gardner, of No. l6. Novem-
Der, 1859; Mary J. Rappelyea, principal Of
No II, June. 1868; principal j. c. Rhine
hart, of No. 20. January, 1857; Mrs. Cole
man, principal of the Girls Grammar De-
partment OF the same school, 1880: Nellie
Q. Dutch. puRcipal of No. Il, June, 1864,
The schedule of salaries for teachers is as
follows:
High School Principal, $500; Vice,
1850; Male Assistants, Sl,400; Female
Assistants, $3.50.
Grammar and Primary Schools-Male
Principals, $1,000; Female Principals,
$500; First Assistants, Grammar, $732
First Assistants. Primary, 1924; other as.
sistants, $500, $3.50, 1904 and $780,